Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 3 | In practice there were two types of member : the fifty or so of middle-class or petit bourgeois origin who formed the backbone of the appreciative audience at Leese 's regular Wednesday night diatribes against the Jews at his London headquarters represented the core of the IFL ; there were also working-class members who engaged in street meetings at intermittent intervals and who were involved in direct conflict and physical violence with members of the Jewish community . |
| 4 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 5 | Fifty or so of the females formed a tight cluster , joined hands and walked backwards until they formed the circumference of a large circle . |
| 6 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 7 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 8 | And possibly either after that or simultaneously with that or to transfer there , he might go up to live in his father 's house up in Yorkshire , Mytholmroyd er er I du n no but it seems to me that if there is a worse place to be unemployed than Wolverhampton , West Riding has got ta be erm a competitor |
| 9 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 10 | Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory . |
| 11 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 12 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |
| 13 | But final family size can not be known until women are in their late 30s or well into their second decade of marriage . |
| 14 | Do n't try to be infallible , god-like or always on your best behaviour : it 's extremely stressful . |
| 15 | Word lengths vary from 12 or less to 64 or more bits , typical lengths being 16 and 32 bits . |
| 16 | It was impossible to judge whether she was asking because she was interested or merely for the sake of politeness . |
| 17 | If all goes well , Beech Road will start at 2-1 or less at Cheltenham as there is no mistaking his superiority . |
| 18 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 19 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 21 | Around 30 or so of the larger lakes remain , mostly composed of heavy crude oil which is solidifying into a sticky , semi-viscous non-porous layer . |
| 22 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
| 23 | The Staff in the Department play a full part in the extra-curricular life of the School , as it is important that the children do not see Learning Support as in any way different or apart from the mainstream of school life . |
| 24 | but I , you see mm now see I 'm not , I 'm really not convinced by that at all , I because I mean it 's quite clear that right across Europe in nineteen thirty nine , nineteen forty , er there was a real sense of oh no , not again |
| 25 | It soon became clear that somewhere in his furtive passage he had lost his way — that at least was the opinion expressed by the Bishop of Chester as he fended off Lord Charles 's passionate advances . |
| 26 | At the same time it should be made clear that apart from false assumptions about matriculation , higher education should only have a small contribution to make to the range , standard and appositeness of 16+ and 18+ examination syllabuses and schemes of marking . |
| 27 | It 's in there because you ca n't have executive style cabinet government in local government unless you pay executive councillors executive salaries , it 's got nothing to do with the idea of you getting thirty five pounds rather than thirty three if we stay here all day erm I would just , I 'm really wisely advised to make one point er Mr er was c wondering why this did n't have majority support actually most of it did I think Mr will confirm that he and his colleagues were happy to support all of the proposed responses from A to J on page thirty and thirty one but were not happy with response B and I would like to er that erm that er when our responses do go forward it is made clear that apart from little paragraph B there was all party support because I really feel that our local authority associates need to know that and erm I hope that will be little B was er a piece that erm certainly I and my colleagues supported er , rather . |
| 28 | And of course , from my own professional viewpoint , it is clear that even after a break of so many years , Miss Kenton would prove the perfect solution to the problem at present besetting us at Darlington Hall . |
| 29 | It is clear that all around the world , Rottweilers seem to have been discovered all at the same time . |
| 30 | It is also clear that only about 1–2% of our rivers have access agreements for anyone at all for any parts of their lengths at any time , a significant part of that minute percentage resulting from the work of Adam Box 's team in the Wessex Water area over the last year . |